It's a Texas Christian Miracle! Only 5 Players tested positive and 4 are in jail!

I’ll address each comment in a way which might help you being to understand and reach more logical conclusions. But before I get to that, I will address a factual error in your comment above. You say that at the time of their comments, the drug dealers were not “going down”. This is incorrect, at least from their perspective. The guy who made the statement knew he had taken a drug test which, in all likelihood, he failed by a long shot. He “knew”, whether he was correct or incorrect in his “knowledge”, that he was going to come up positive for at least one banned substance. In other words, he “knew” he was going down.

But back to the lesson in psychology -

1. 1 – Most salesmen, especially those trying to sell a product which requires them to overcome an obstacle to sales (like, say, federal/state/local laws), will use an device wherein they throw out statements of “facts” designed to cause the client in their presence to “know” that their product has a lot of demand. Most humans do this without any type of sales training. It is in our nature. And those that actually have sales training do it in a generally more polished way.

“Never miss an opportunity to reinforce the perceived demand for your product.”

Now apply that to the young pot salesmen from TCU. They are with a client. They know that he is making a buy, but so far he hasn’t brought them any of his friends. They want to influence him to tell his friends – “Hey, if you want the good stuff you should go see this guy I know.” So they tell him something designed to cause him to reach the desired conclusion. And what better to tell him than something which his questions led to? He asked about the drug test, so the salesman turns it into an opportunity to reinforce the perceived demand for his product.

Now it is time for a judgment call on your part. WHich is more likely:
a – The salesman was trying to entice his client to bring friends to increase his business… especially in light of his clear perception that he wouldn’t have an NFL career to carry him in the future?? Or…
b – The drug dealer was fully aware of… and fully capable of describing with unerring accuracy on… exactly how much THC was present in the urine of 82 people of his acquaintance on 1 FEB 2012??

1. 2 – Another interesting aspect of human psychology occurs when a person is certain that he has done something wrong. Usually, a person goes through the stages of reacting to a stressful event. The first stage is “Shock and Denial”. During this stage, it is common for the denial to manifest through wildly exaggerated claims of others’ equal culpability. It is a sort of “my wrong-doing isn’t so bad because lots of others are doing things equally wrong” statement. In most cases, it has little… if any… resemblance to the truth. Usually, the people on the receiving end of these sorts of comments can tell that the guy is desperately seeking some sort of acceptance from the audience for his nonsense. The phrase “grasping at straws” comes to mind… if you’re even familiar with that phrase.

But let’s explore the possibility that this drug dealer’s “Shock and Denial” stage resulted in his calm statement of absolute fact. It becomes, once again, a question of which is more likely:
a – The comments about others’ guilt were a desperate attempt on the part of a person going through the “Shock and Denial” stage of stress to convince somebody… anybody… that he was going to be ok?? Or…
b – The guy was raving and talking out of his ass because he was, in fact, in the “Shock and Denial” stage of stress??

I don’t care about kids smoking, growing or selling marijuana because I just don’t care about it. It’s not a moral issue for me, and I’m surprised it still elicits much teeth-knashing from people. You were very astute to point out that I was entirely specific about which system has incongruous mission statements, lack of focus, a dearth of leadership and seemingly little to no interest in honest reasoning, but I thought it was clear I meant the national drug policy and its relationships with the legal drug industries and law enforcement. I was not, as could have been misconstrued, referring to the entire legal and judicial system.

Debating whether the kid was lying to cover his ass really has nothing to do with anything. Even if he thought in his heart of hearts he was giving the truth, he had no authority to know how many kids on the football team might have failed the test. You have to take it with a grain of salt big enough to render the given figure meaningless. You might say, maybe he was selling to all of them. To that I say, what’s most likely? These are two junior Scarfaces, or just a couple dumb kids?

To your third point, the comparison was between two kids spouting off or TCU having one of the largest college drug markets in the country. Those two sides are very different. One failed drug test would be more than anyone knew two weeks ago.

Taking the information we have now, let’s say the football team represents a close approximation of the camps, and everyone with traces of marijuana is guilty. Not true, of course, but let’s say it’s as bad as that. We’re looking at 4 percent of students being active smokers and about another 9 percent of students being occasional, recreational smokers. Is this news?

The point I was trying to make is taking a loose statement included in an arrest warrant affidavit and surmising there is a huge problem at TCU is reckless. The truth is most likely much more mundane, which appears to be the case.